English Alliterative Verse : Poetic Tradition and Literary History
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
1107169658
ISBN-13
9781107169654
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 27th, 2016
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
48 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 14.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from Beowulf to Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and challenges the idea that the alliterative tradition falls into two halves divided by the Norman Conquest.
English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of medieval English literary history into Old English and Middle English periods. The two halves of the alliterative tradition, divided by the Norman Conquest of 1066, have been studied separately since the nineteenth century; this book uses the history of metrical form and its cultural meanings to bring the two halves back together. In combining literary history and metrical description into a new kind of history he calls ''verse history'', Weiskott reimagines the historical study of poetics.
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